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Research Skills
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.In this course, you will learn basic research skills, such as reading, memory recall, and note-taking. You will also learn how to create different kinds of outlines for different stages of your project, and how to move from the outline to writing, editing, and polishing. As well, you’ll learn how to find information using the library’s Dewey Decimal System, journals, and the Internet. -
Basic Internet Marketing
$200.00In this course, you will learn how to market online, where your target market is, and what results you are getting. You will also learn about search engine optimization, e-mail campaigns, pay per click advertising, and more. -
Creative Thinking and Innovation
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you will identify ways to develop your creative side and build a creative environment. You’ll also learn a basic problem-solving process, individual creative thinking tools (such as the RAP model, shoe swap technique, mind mapping, metaphors, and toys), and team-based creative thinking tools (such as brainstorming, brainwriting, rolestorming, the stepladder technique, and slip writing). -
Selling Smarter
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.In this course, you will learn why consultative and customer-focused selling are so important. You’ll also learn about the sales cycle, setting goals, ways to increase your average sale, and where to find new clients. -
Managing the Virtual Workplace
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course will teach managers and supervisors how to prepare employees for the virtual workplace, create telework programs, build virtual teams, leverage technology, and overcome cultural barriers. -
Business Etiquette: Gaining That Extra Edge
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you’ll learn all about business etiquette. First, you will learn tips for meeting new people, which includes a good handshake, knowing how to handle business cards, making small talk, remembering names, and crafting a good first impression. Then, you’ll learn how to dress for success, dine with confidence, and present yourself well on the phone and via e-mail. -
Business Process Management
$200.00To begin this course, you will learn about business process management and three related skill areas: business analysis, enterprise content management, and business process re-engineering. Then, you will work through the five stages of the business process life cycle: vision, design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization. Tools such as automation, business rules, workflow engines, what-if analysis, process mining, business activity monitoring, the balanced scorecard, Lean, and Six Sigma are also covered. -
Getting Your Job Search Started
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you will learn how to manage change, identify your values and skills, consider your vocation, find jobs, network, and set goals. Then, you should be ready to start the search for your dream job. -
Critical Thinking
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.In this course, you’ll learn what critical thinking is all about, what characteristics a critical thinker has, and what skills you may want to work on. Then, you’ll work your way through a seven-step critical thinking model. Supporting skills, such as asking good questions, applying common sense, and thinking creatively, are also covered. -
How to Become a Leader with Integrity
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.At the end of this workshop, you will be able to: Understand why integrity makes a powerful, lasting impact, Recognize and use the four ‘I’s of transformational leadership, Practice better self-leadership, Measure and develop your authenticity and transformational leadership, Develop charismatic behaviors and improve your skills of persuasion, and Learn how to transform others. -
Business Ethics for the Office
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you will learn what the terms ethics, morals, and values mean. Then, you will learn about several different ethical frameworks, including Kohlbergs six stages, philosophical approaches, personal values, and codes of ethics. You will also learn how to avoid ethical dilemmas, make ethical decisions, handle common ethical dilemmas, and recover from mistakes. -
Women and Leadership: Owning Your Strengths and Skills
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.At the end of this course you will understand a brief history and evolution of women and leadership. You will recognize leadership barriers, how to handle them, and use them to create benefits. You will know about social and emotional intelligence, and self-awareness. You will be able to develop a basic vision and brand for your leadership and understand essential leadership skills. You will also examine decision making and create a workplace philosophy statement and action plan. -
Writing for the Web
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course will teach you how to design and structure web writing, create eye-catching headlines, develop user-friendly websites, add audio and video to your writing, and leverage search engine optimization to get noticed. -
Telemarketing: Using the Telephone as a Sales Tool
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.In this course, you will learn how to communicate effectively over the telephone, develop your personal telemarketing script, and close a sale. You’ll also learn how telemarketing can add to your sales strategy. -
Critical Elements of Customer Service
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course is all about the critical elements of customer service: a customer service focus that is defined within, and given life by, your organization. In order to be successful, this focus must be reinforced every day, measured, and improved upon. -
Creativity In The Workplace
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.After you complete this course, you will be able to, define creativity, identify the characteristics of a creative person, develop your creativity, understand the importance of creativity in the workplace, identify the benefits of creativity in the workplace, examine creative corporate cultures, foster creativity in the workplace, and apply brainstorming techniques. -
Knowledge Management
$200.00In this course, you will learn what knowledge is, what knowledge management is, how tacit and explicit knowledge are different, and the business benefits that knowledge management can bring. Then, you will learn about the knowledge management mix (which includes people, technology, and process) as well as a four step process for building your knowledge management framework. You will also learn about four knowledge management models: Bukowitz and Williams’ KM Process Framework, Gamble and Blackwell’s knowledge management matrix, Botha’s process model, and Nonaka and Takeuchi’s spiral model. Implementation aspects, such as knowledge management teams, post-mortem plans, KMBOKs, Chief Knowledge Officers, and pilot programs, are covered as well. -
Cybersecurity 1: Fundamentals for Employees
$200.00Starting with an understanding of the history and the current state of cyberattacks in terms of quantity and cost to business this course has the participant explore the various forms of cybercrime so they know how to recognize and defend against them at a company and an individual level. Further it explores the role of information obtained on social media platforms in these attacks and allows so the participant to understand what they should and should not be putting on these platforms. This ends with participants creating their own Personal Cybersecurity Plan. -
Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course will introduce you to the basics of sustainability and corporate social responsibility using ISO 26000 guidelines as a framework. These principles include organizational governance and ethics, operating practices, human rights and labor practices, environmental awareness and sustainability, consumer issues, and community involvement. -
Making Your Business Better
$200.00This course demonstrates how various factors work together to ensure a company flourishes. Students will be guided through positioning and pricing, marketing, selling, negotiating, responding to RFQs, project management, team building, productivity, and strategic planning. Other courses that may be of interest to the student are Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills, Business Leadership, Business Ethics in the Office, Creating a Positive Work Environment, and Getting Stuff Done - Personal Development Boot Camp. -
Working Smarter: Using Technology to Your Advantage
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you’ll learn how to use technology to your advantage. Computers, various types of applications, software purchases, technical training, IT budgets, security, privacy, usage policies, ergonomics, instant messaging, and telecommuting are all covered. -
Fundamentals of Writing
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.Specific learning objectives include: how to write clearly, concisely, completely, and correctly; how to make sure words agree; how to recognize and use active voice; how to write proper sentences; how to use practical and inclusive language; how to use different punctuation marks; and, how to revise and proofread. -
Becoming a Progressive Employer: Setting Trends Instead of Following Them
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.In this course, you will gain an understanding of what being progressive means, and then take time to truly examine this concept through activities and discussion. You will look at the process involved in going from the status quo to being progressive, along with how to develop or enhance a progressive mindset and innovative ideas. The last part of the course involves understanding the importance of a succession plan to a progressive organization. -
Getting Stuff Done: Personal Development Boot Camp
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.To start this course, you’ll explore what personal efficiency is all about, as well as useful attitudes and skills that you might want to develop. Then, you’ll outline your vision statement, dreams, and goals. Next, you’ll learn about the 80/20 system, what characteristics your organizational system should have, how to design a functional workspace, and techniques for organizing your daily to-do items. You’ll also learn how to set up and maintain information management systems (both physical and virtual), prioritize tasks, create routines, and tackle procrastination. Finally, you’ll learn how to get organized at home. -
Lean Process Improvement
$200.00This course will teach you the foundations of Lean through the Toyota precepts and the five critical improvement concepts (value, waste, variation, complexity, and continuous improvement). Then, you will learn about tools to perform continuous improvement in your organization, including 5S, 5W-2H, PDSA, DMAIC, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu, and Lean data mapping methods. -
Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
$200.00In this course, you will learn about the Shared Management Model, which helps the manager transfer motivation and responsibility for results to the employee. This course will cover all three phases of the model: preparing the employee for the job, motivating them to do it, and evaluating their performance. -
Digital Citizenship: Conducting Yourself in a Digital World
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.You will be presented with the concept that, just as in the real world we have certain rights, responsibilities, and standards of behavior as citizens, this is true in the digital world as well. This will be supported by looking at the similarities between the two worlds. Your understanding of what digital citizenship entails will be increased by examining its three principles, each of which is comprised of three elements. You will be counselled on how to practice good citizenship using each of the elements. The course finishes up with giving you exercises designed to reinforce the principles. -
Social Media and Your Business
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00. -
Workplace Harassment: What It Is and What to Do About It
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.After completing this course, you will be able to identify acceptable and unacceptable behavior in the workplace, apply the benefits of harassment training, define the various types of harassment, assist in the creation of a harassment policy, understand ways to prevent and protect yourself from harassment, know what to do if you are the target of harassment or are accused of harassment, understand the complaint process, and how to help your workplace adjust after a harassment incident. -
Successfully Managing Change
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.This course covers how to manage and cope with change and how to help those around you, too. Topics explored include understanding, accepting and reacting to change; and strategies for assisting with change to be accepted and implemented in the workplace. -
Public Speaking: Presentation Survival School
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.After you complete this course, you will be able to establish rapport with your audience, implement techniques to reduce nervousness and fear, understand your strengths as a presenter and how to appeal to different types of people, recognize how visual aids can create impact and attention, develop techniques to create a professional presence, learn some different ways to prepare and organize information, and prepare, practice, and deliver a short presentation. -
Becoming a Better Learner
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.After you complete this course, you will be able to understand what it means to learn and become a life-long learner, know what a mindset for learning looks like and how to adopt one, set realistic goals, understand what your network is and why expanding it is important, know how to ask questions and why that is important, become accountable for your goals and take responsibility, and know how to accelerate your learning. -
Employee Accountability
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.You will begin this course by exploring what accountability is all about and some recent events that have caused people to look at accountability more closely. Then, you’ll learn ways to build accountability and ownership in your organization and make yourself more accountable. Supporting skills, like goal setting, feedback, and delegation, are also covered. -
Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.At the end of this course, you will be able to: define what the balanced scorecard is, identify the benefits of the scorecard, create a vision statement for the balanced scorecard, understand what corporate values, mission statements, and vision statements are and how they tie into the balanced scorecard process, determine if the balanced scorecard is right for your organization, describe the key elements of the balanced scorecard process, identify a strategy map, tactical action plan, and balanced scorecard, identify the components of supporting balanced scorecard plans, understand what processes you will need to support the balanced scorecard, and, identify the members of different balanced scorecard teams. -
Effective Planning and Scheduling
$200.00This course will teach you how to use a variety of planning and scheduling tools, including the work breakdown structure, network diagrams, program evaluation and review technique (PERT), and Gantt charts. You will also learn how to properly estimate time, schedule resources, identify task dependencies, manage risks, communicate your schedule, and keep the schedule updated.
